Caroline Wessling, LMFT, anxiety therapist serving California
Brainspotting and anxiety therapist for women in CA
A therapist to help with anxiety and burnout, online in California
Serving the San Francisco Bay Area and All of CA

Therapist for Anxiety & Burnout


Feel Like Yourself Again

Let me be the first to tell you...

You're not broken


You're not here because something's wrong with you.

You're here because you're exhausted. You look successful on the outside—capable, competent, the one others can count on—but inside you're anxious, overwhelmed, second-guessing everything.

You've learned to be capable, composed, and high-functioning. You've learned to power through. But no one taught you how to actually rest, trust yourself, or stop the constant mental noise.

The perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the overthinking—these aren't flaws.

They're strategies you developed to stay safe, succeed, or be accepted.

They worked for a while. But now they're exhausting you.

Our work together isn't about fixing you. It's about understanding those old patterns underneath your behavior, and updating them so that they serve you instead of draining you.

Therapist for women with anxiety and burnout in California
A therapist for perfectionist and people-pleasing women in California

A therapist who gets it

Therapist office for anxiety therapy

Why work with me.

Before I became a therapist, I lived a version of what you might be experiencing.

I got my MBA and spent over a decade working finance. From the outside, I had it together—the career, the stability, the competence everyone around me took for granted.

But I also watched what it cost. Capable, intelligent women excelling at work and quietly falling apart inside. Tying their worth to their performance. Overworking to prove something that never quite got proven. Saying yes when they meant no. Carrying everyone else's expectations while their own needs went unmet.

I watched myself do the same things.

I left that world because I wanted to help women navigate that tension differently.

Not by working harder. Not by getting closer to perfect. But by actually understanding what's driving the anxiety — and changing it. By reconnecting with the parts of themselves that got buried under the pressure to perform.

An anxiety therapist who understands women with perfectionism and overthinking

How I work

I understand the competing pressures you are dealing with.

My background in business means I get the career pressure, the financial stress, the strategic overthinking, the need to appear capable while struggling privately.

My training as a therapist means I know how to help you process it—not just understand it intellectually, but actually shift it at its source.

For understanding old patterns, building new ones, making sense of your experiences.

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Mindfulness-Based Insight Therapy

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For nervous system work because talking about it isn't enough

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Practical, real-world focus

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Because you need an approach that fits your actual life

What therapy with me is like

Therapy with me is…

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A place where you can stop performing and just be yourself

Collaborative — we figure out your patterns and goals together

Focused on both emotional depth and real-life practicality

A space to untangle overwhelm, build clarity, and trust yourself again

Supportive — you'll feel seen, understood, and safe to change

Therapy with me is not…

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One-size-fits-all or judgmental

A quick fix — real change takes time and intention

About fixing who you are or becoming someone different

A place where you have to prove yourself

Just talking about your problems without actually changing them

My values

Brainspotting therapist for anxiety in California

I believe…

Your patterns make sense

The anxiety, the perfectionism, the people-pleasing—they developed for a reason. Understanding why you do what you do is the first step to changing it.

You're the expert on your life

I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to help you build clarity so you can trust your own decisions. Therapy is collaborative—we figure this out together, not with me as the authority and you following directives.

Real change involves both the mind and the body.

Understanding your patterns intellectually is helpful. But lasting change requires your nervous system to feel safe enough to let go of old strategies. That's why I use both talk therapy and Brainspotting—to work with your whole system, not just your thoughts.

The systems around us shape us

The pressure to be perfect, to prioritize work over everything, to put others' needs first—these aren't personal failures. They're the result of living in systems that value productivity over well-being. We'll look at how these forces have shaped you, so you can make choices that actually fit your life.

Anxiety therapist for perfectionism, financial stress, and relationship struggles in California
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My Background & Training

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Education

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (California)
Masters in Counseling Psychology the Wright Institute
Masters in Business Administration, Georgetown University


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Professional Affiliations

California Association of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)


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Training

Brainspotting Phase 1 and Phase 2
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia (CBT-i)
Healing Money Trauma
Trauma-Focused Congnitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

You deserve to feel better than “fine”